Tag Archive: Lzzy Hale

Hey! It’s been a month since I last posted. I’ve thought a lot about writing something of finishing something I’ve already started, but I never got around to it. Now, I have a new idea! I “waste” a lot of time on a meme website called 9GAG. Right now, someone’s started a trend of making a list of “need to know” songs and putting their list on 9GAG. I thought I should hop on the train and make such a list of my own. The first one that started this trend (that I noticed, at least), had a rule not to include more than one song per artist/band, and so I wanted to do the same, but realized that it was too difficult for some bands, so I only tried to not include too many. I will just dive right into it, with no arrangement to the order in which I list the songs I feel you need to know. (of course this will be mainly rock/metal, since that’s my forte, but I might include some other songs as well, if I feel like you really need to know/listen to them).
I’ve made the list in Spotify, so you can go in and have a listen right away. Might get back to this post later and make a YouTube-playlist of it as well, but for now Spotify will have to do.

Disturbed – The Sound Of Silence / Down With The Sickness

Evanescence – Bring Me To Life / My Immortal

Paramore – Misery Business

Nirvana – Smells Like Teen Spirit

Avenged Sevenfold – Nightmare / Afterlife

Black Sabbath – Iron Man

AC/DC – Thunderstruck

Foo Fighers – The Best Of You

Bullet For My Valentine – Tears Don’t Fall

Rage Against The Machine – Killing In The Name

Slipknot – Psychosocial / Duality

Kings of Leon – Sex On Fire

Royal Blood – Better Stangers

Linkin Park – Numb / Faint

Machine Head – Darkness Within / Davidian

Korn – Thoughtless

Coldplay – Fix You

Imagine Dragons – Radioactive

Helloween – Mr. Torture

Halestorm – Love Bites (So Do I)

Ghost B.C. – Cirice

Dimmu Borgir – Gateways

Five Finger Death Punch – Coming Down / House Of The Rising Sun

Audioslave – Show Me How To Live

Soundgarden – Live To Rise

Drowning Pool – Bodies

The Cranberries – Zombie

Brandi Carlile – The Story

Deftones – Change (In The House Of Flies)

AWOLNATION – Sail

Johnny Cash – Hurt

Dream Theater – A Nightmare To Remember

Nomy – Cocaine

Radiohead – Creep

Tribal Ink – Refugee

Avantasia – The Scarecrow

The Goo Goo Dolls – Iris

Amy Lee – Lockdown

Ed Sheeran – I See Fire

System Of A Down – B.Y.O.B.

Volbeat – Still Counting

Alice Cooper – Poison

Metallica – Enter Sandman

Guns N’ Roses – Sweet Child O’ Mine

Breaking Benjamin – So Cold

Iron Maiden – Fear Of The Dark

Dio – Rainbow In The Dark / Holy Diver

Rammstein – Du Hast

Device/Lzzy Hale – Close My Eyes Forever

Lady Gaga – Til It Happens To You

Muse – Plug In Baby

Rise Against – Hero Of War

Chevelle – The Red

Thee Days Grace – I Hate Everything About You

Axel Rudi Pell – Glory Night

In Flames – Alias

My Chemical Romance – The Black Parade

Green Day – 21 Guns

Elton John – Candle In The Wind

There’s just a handful of these songs that I don’t know every single word to, but they still evoke something in me that makes me think everyone should hear them. These songs are iconic to me, representing the band, the genre and the time period they were produced in perfectly. A few of these are covers, but I included them because they are so good that I feel they both do justice to the original artists and the songs, in addition to the covers being iconic themselves.

Links to the two lists that I found already, there are some very good songs in there, and some I have yet to check out.

Am I missing something obvious to you? Would you perhaps replace the song I’ve chosen by a(n) artist/band? What would be your most iconic/”need to know”-songs? Please let me know in the comment section.

“So paint it black and take it backLets shout it loud and clearDo you fight it to the endWe hear the call toTo carry onWe’ll carry on”
(Welcome To The Black Parade – My Chemical Romance)

Hello people! Today I’m doing yet another post on one of Halestorm’s songs. This one is called Hate It When You See Me Cry, and was published on the Deluxe Edition of the album The Strange Case Of… in 2012. Here are the lyrics.

It’s very simple and straight forward, but so good. The song starts right on with the vocals and a guitar, and the rest of the band kicks in on the second time Lzzy sings “I hate it when you see me cry“. Of course I like the guitar solo, though it’s not the most awesome I’ve ever heard, I always like a good guitar solo!The lyrics are both sweet and cool. “I’m here to save the world, but who will save super girl?”. I mean, that’s awesome. This song rocks, it just does.

“I’m your rock n’ roll Joan of ArcThe Queen of broken heartsI’m here to save the world, but who will save super girl?”
(Hate It When You See Me Cry – Halestorm)

Hello there! Yep, it’s time for another song by Halestorm! This time it’s Break In off the album The Strange Case Of… (2012). Here are the lyrics.

The melody of this song is very beautiful. It’s a very calm and sweet song, compared to the rest of Halestorm’s repertoire, and so good. Lzzy’s voice is much more vulnerable when not accompanied by rough guitars and drums, but still very powerful. The lyrics are so sweet and great, well written.

I really wanted to show you a special live version of the song that was performed on every show of the Carnival of Madness Tour last year. You see, since both Evanescence and Halestorm were on the same tour, Lzzy and Amy Lee decided to work together on this song. Here you see the (in my opinion) fantastic result of the collaboration:

“You let me fall apart without letting goThen you pick up the pieces and you make me whole”
(Break In – Halestorm)

Hello there! Now I’m doing a post on the song Daughters Of Darkness by Halestorm. The song was first published on the EP Hello, It’s Mz. Hyde, and later on the album The Strange Case Of…, both in 2012. Here are the lyrics, as well as in the video:

This song has a lot of energy. The chanting just enhances the energy even more. I really like the guitar riffs, and the drums in the intro sound almost tribal, which sort of fits the song, if you consider “Daughters Of Darkness” to be a tribe of women or something. I think the lyrics kick ass. Maybe that’s because I’m a woman myself, but they’re still awesome. Lzzy has a rough and cool voice that I think is great.

“We can turn you on, or we will turn on youDaughters of darkness, sisters insaneA little evil goes a long, long way”
(Daughters Of Darkness – Halestorm)

Hey! Today’s song is Love Bites (So Do I) by Halestorm. The song was published on their new album, The Strange Case Of… (2012). The lyrics are here, and the music video is below:

I really enjoy the lyrics to this song. They have such an attitude, and Lzzy sings them with such attitude, in a strange way it makes me a little more proud to be a woman. Lzzy has a voice that really suits singing in a rock band.
The drum beat gives the song such a high tempo, and drives the song so fast forward, that it gives the song an extra edge. I also liked the guitar solo, though it’s a little short for me, but then again, there’s beat driving the song forward. No time for stretched-out guitar solos!
The music video isn’t that special, except for the way Arejay handles his drums. Oh, well…

“I know a thousand ways to help you forget about herThat bitch can eat her heart outLove bites, but so do I, so do I”(Love Bites (So Do I) – Halestorm)

Well, Hello! Today’s song, and first artist for this challenge, is “Innocence” by the American rock band Halestorm. The band was founded by the siblings Lzzy(her actual name is Elizabeth, but her stage name is Lzzy) and Arejay Hale (thereof the name Halestorm). The song was released on their self titled album (Halestorm) in 2009. The song was actually co-written by Ben Moody, which is the co-founder, and previous member of Evanescence (ironically, I’ve listened to this for a while, and checked out just now about the song, and there his name was… funny how things like that happen to me). You can read the lyrics here. Enjoy the song!

I absolutely adore the guitar riffs. Really fantastic. Lzzy’s got an amazing voice (her actual name is Elizabeth Hale, but her stage name is Lzzy). You really hear it in the mid of the song, after the bridge, “Child don’t follow me home”, I got chills the first time I listened to that.
They’re different. The lyrics are not all that mushy and all about love. The song is more of the bitchy type, if you know what I mean. She’s still the girl, but the roles are kind of different, turned in a way. Normally you would think that it’s the girl who’s the “child”, but since it’s Lzzy who’s singing, it seems as she wants a boy’s “innocence”. That’s pretty neat to me, it makes me feel powerful as a girl. You can hear it in their other songs too, the kick-ass lyrics, you get confidence as a girl when you listen to them, and that’s great. Different, but definitely brilliant.

“If you choose to stay you’ll throw it all awayAnd I just want to take your innocence”
(Innocence – Halestorm)